Twitter RIMM spam

Some of you may have noticed a dropoff in twitter posts that say nothing but "$RIMM ouch".

I found these interesting. Every time they would come from accounts who have a short posting history, whose previous posts are unrelated to blackberry and finance/stocks in general. Then out of the blue, each one posts a single post: "$RIMM ouch".

Well - apparently the bots who are creating or hijacking these accounts have not received news that the ticker symbol changed. I don't see any "$BBRY ouch" posts, but searching "$RIMM" shows that they now make up about half of the traffic for that ticker symbol:

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%24rimm&src=typd

Confirms my theory that these were never legit posts to begin with.

I just found this entertaining and figured to share :)

Interestingly I see a lot of hijacked accounts tweeting the same message about the MS upgrade today...


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Yup...no manipulation though. ;)

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Originally Posted by Marc_Paradise

Some of you may have noticed a dropoff in twitter posts that say nothing but "$RIMM ouch".

I found these interesting. Every time they would come from accounts who have a short posting history, whose previous posts are unrelated to blackberry and finance/stocks in general. Then out of the blue, each one posts a single post: "$RIMM ouch".

Well - apparently the bots who are creating or hijacking these accounts have not received news that the ticker symbol changed. I don't see any "$BBRY ouch" posts, but searching "$RIMM" shows that they now make up about half of the traffic for that ticker symbol:

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%24rimm&src=typd

Confirms my theory that these were never legit posts to begin with.

I just found this entertaining and figured to share :)

;)